To:A. M. ANIKST

Published:First published in 1933 in the book, A. M. Anikst,Vospominaniya o Vladimire Ilyiche(Reminiscences of Vladimir Ilyich), Moscow.

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      Moscow,Volume 45,

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Comrade Anikst

Inview of the statement by Comrade Korolyov,
Chairman of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia Executive
Committee, concerning the non-fulfilment of the C.L.D. decision
of
5--X–20,[1]and in view of the extreme importance of the
uninterrupted running of the textile mills in
Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia, which in six months can produce2.88million 60-arshinpiece-goods, i.e., 172.8 million
arshins—I hereby instruct you to organise not later thantomorrow, 16-XI-20, under your chairmanship, a conference
consisting of Comrade Korolyov and representatives:

on matters
relating
to each
department
respectively

from the People’s Commissariat for Food

Central Fuel Administration

Central Oil Administration

Central Peat Administration

People’s Commissariat for Defence

People’s Commissariat for Finance

People’s Commissariat for Railways

onthe various questions raised by the Ivanovo-Voznesensk   Gubernia Executive Committee, to work outprecise  -4decisions and to submit them to me for signature or to the   C.L.D. at 6.00 p.m. sharp on Wednesday,
17–XI–20.[2]

Chairman,Council of Labour and Defence

[1]Areference to the decision, “On fuel and food supplies to tie
factories being restarted in Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia, included
in the shock group of textile enterprises”, which was adopted on
Lenin’s report by the Council of Labour and Defence on October
1, 1920. G. K. Korolyov’s report erroneously gave the date
as October 5.

[2]Theletter was sent out by Lenin after his talk with G. K.
Korolyov, Chairman of the Ivanovo-Voznesensk Gubernia
Executive Committee, who had been despatched to Moscow in
connection with the food crisis in the gubernia, the stoppage of fuel
supply for shock textile mills and delays in wage payments to
workers. On November 15, 1920, Korolyov told Lenin about the
gubernia’s hardships and submitted a report listing the necessary
measures to overcome them.

OnNovember 16, the C.P.C., on the report of a commission
appointed by Lenin, adopted a decision on the supply of money
and food to the workers of Ivanovo-Voznesensk. The following
day, November 17, the Council of Labour and Defence, on the
strength of a report by the same commission, adopted a resolution
on the supply of food and fuel to Ivanovo-Voznesensk. On theof theCollected Works.